Chapter 7 Flashcards
How is culture related to health?
- Related to health behaviors
- A determinate of people’s ideas about illness
- What and how much people use health services
- different medical practices and treatments
a set of rules or standards shared by members of a society which when acted upon produce behaviours that are considered proper and acceptable
culture
A group of people who occupy a specific locality and share the same cultural traditions
society
Some cultures are made to be practiced in certain environments and can cause negative outcomes in other environments
cultural adaption to the environment
Judging a culture based on what is lacking compaired to their own
ethnocentrism
Cultures can only be studied based on their own standards and values
cultural relativism
The ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures
cultural competence
Life long process of learning about another culture and examining beliefs about culture including biases and assumptions
cultural humility
The degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information
health literacy
practices based on theories and experiences indigenous to different cultures and used in the maintenance of health in those cultures
traditional medicine
a system of medical doctors and other health care professional that treat illness with drugs, radiation or surgery.
western biomedicine
depending on what a culture believes is normal, will change if they see something as an illness or just a fact of life
perceptions of illness
the malfunctioning or maladaptation of biologic and psychophysiological process in the individual
disease
personal, interpersonal and cultural reactions to disease or discomfort
illness.
